[1591] in bugtraq
Re: virus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joshua Hosseinoff)
Sun Apr 23 19:30:30 1995
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 18:19:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joshua Hosseinoff <hosseino@yu1.yu.edu>
To: "bugtraq@fc.net" <bugtraq@fc.net>
In-Reply-To: <01BA0F2F.E57D8CC0@gunther.electrotek.com>
I can't believe anyone still falls for this old canard, probably the same
people who write the FCC about the modem tax :) FYU Erich, Good Times
was a hoax, there never was and never will be such a creature.
On Thu, 20 Apr 1995, Erich W. Gunther wrote:
> I received an e-mail from a collegue regarding a new virus propogated
> by e-mail called the "Good Times" virus. The e-mail was not very specific
> as to the how the virus does its damage or what security holes it exploits
> to do its thing. Has anybody else heard of it and have any additional
> information? Here is a excerpt from the e-mail I received:
>
> > Luckily, there is one sure means of detecting what is now known as the "good
> > times" virus. It always travels to new computers the same way in a text e-
> > mail message with the subject line reading simply "Good Times."
> >
> > Avoiding infection is easy once the file has been recieved--not reading it.
> > The act of loading the file into the mail servers's ASCII buffer causes the
> > "Good Times" mainline program to initialize and execute. The program is
> > highly intelligent-it will send copies of itself to everyone whose e-mail
> > address is contained in a received-mail file or sent-mail file. If it can
> > find one. It will then proceed to trash the computer it is running on.
>
>
> Erich W. Gunther
> Director of Technology Development
> Electrotek Concepts, Inc.
> erich@electrotek.com
>
